THE INK-BOTTLE CRASH.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7523, 12 April 1890, Page 2

THE INK-BOTTLE CRASH.

Bt Lukb Sharp, Many a night I hare kfo : amhMterror, fearing that the truth about th! ink bottles would come out. But tt L did, and now that thetear of mntahm? te past, rmay as well tell ifc JZI * We had Just got into the new idmi house that winter and were Ml yewS of the edifice. It was painted figg# white outside and the plaster Tart brilliant .white inside, and there wu i door at the end with a smaU platform,* J three windows on each side o£ the buiH i ing, one set of windows looking< onr XL* hig; swamp and the other setlooWst Mm the village. The teacher thaf m jJJJJ: winter was particularly hard, m S Perhaps she was right about it, htmm hated her, and taking It all Iα ■£: a pretty hard time of it that w^ fo yf villagß.. The ink that we usecl frsa hmht In little stone bottles that ce«H w aptee©. There wm also ag& fedS home-made Ink In voruo, which iS, cocted with sugar and tbe bwfedvS, tain tree whose name I forget feoffc msX I think), but which, when•-belted iff sugar and water, make a very bfack ■& gummy Ink that had a glwsed appeartM when It was written fa a copy book ml which was apt, when laid on too thlek fe have all the characteristics of copyitssM and to smear the opposite page. T&s trf oft with'our ink was Its woujt fa*s solid on a cold night, and after it wii thawed out we had a palo, aggrawiiig hue, Some one found oub tint 'If if heated the ink and evaporated some of m water the ink became black again, I vra.% talking about this with one q| the boys, and I told bisu la confldedce, If he wouldn't glw U away, that if he put hU ink botfcje 4ifta hot stove and cprked it real tight thi lm would become very much blacker th&a Si would if he left the cork out. la. tba terrible calamity that followed, this bo?, fortunately for mc, forgot- who it wu thk gave him this interesting Information, and so for the time I escaped, but Iweaits terror-for many a day and nJghU{S«> wards that memory would return to iv sway and that the boy would t?U tSto teacher who had adviesd him to put; tfct ink bottle on tho stove Subtly corked, One morning when thogrcaibosrstoys was pearly rea hot, and the'twhw vrw engaged at the other (sud of tm school room with a class, tttfs boy pat his lp,k bottle, tightly corkedi da fc?ia6b79. OUior boys, seeing this and nob &aowlng t!« reason, asked him about it, and ha tc>l4 them that it made the ink very ffloea blacker and fa a very iraach ?bor£e? time than by the old method, Thereupon, without thinking of tha conscqueisctfe, eac& one drove the cork into each eoparato Irs bottle and put it on the store. SoaeoJ the pupils who were rather inclined ta k snobbish and put on stylo over tho rest of Oβ,* had glass ink bottles. Tiiesa wtts conipally shaped affairs and thoy gave Iμ ownera of them a certaiq n school society which we otherfellow? -Ai had the ordinary stoae bottles could nara hope tP attain. The glass Ink boWn were not to ho purchased in tho viiiftf?, but were bouglt from.a dlet&nt twa Shortly after the first boy put bmp* bottle on the efcove there wewoaozeau fifteen bottles, both stono and g\m% ti . tjahtly co?ked, on top ot the bos stove, v the teacher from her place at ih\fry/< the further end of the rooan notlfled toe bottles on the afcove theygqvoharnsas" easineaa, for it was a common thing ar,« a ftroety nißht for us to put oar bottom the stpve and evaporate some of tte««. and get the ink Into Ita proper «Jg condition again. Meanwhile the «W school was attending moro op »•••»" lessons and nothlnf? broke tnertjig but the drqwey hum of the class jrtWr»J reciting its lessons. From out ttjMH of my eye I watched of ansJet/ the elfeet of the f *UeooEkedup ink bottles, Of steam shot out npw apd edge of the moro loose oorksiw »*&* boftle began to dance' Wfilvkj in an odd manner, but tais *t*™2 g indication of the disaster «*Zp4 follow. A natty glass botUo H to go. It exploded with a <««» aafiE a cannon had been flref££|S silent schoolroom. It alt over the place, and th& that wasn't hart or flying glass o/ecalded with the JejJ « Ink. Everyone sprang fro»h* terror, . £h» teacher Jumprf «P{gffi ,e Gracious, what watt tha* * any answer coald bo given, «JS*W» exploded and then one of the "WJSlβshot its cork clear up to the c^w|^; a to the pure whits piaster, draTe»»»;r ? . of boiling hot ink, which β^nede-- >< - Ing wittfanggea', ugly, - neTer ©paid be got oot to echool-house wast piillea ooiratime all the girls were cryinfi cad fl i. were etandfng as far from the stove, with wfclfce' *St&; trembling limbs. JJtook in tEe situation. .«»"ss*" ! to the stove, which w« flri ,°fe ( Si f.!i about once a second, a«u ,; L*d ia 'i'- 1 the pointer, which «IJβ. J y handawept the remafnisg l&s; floor. Aeehedld«ofcwo<)rtb[f.;| t:3 ! S bottles went off and •plwhea wo* all over tho wall at that eUfJgrfU and oripart of the ceiling, ij- J who haS been Innocent vlertn»«, 4V , affair and who had lost tJw^ffilfoe 3 bottles, etonw told . to cork the ink bottles to Waokoa w w This uiUbrtanate bay hid had dove so, but added tf»vjyj r y&«" told so by somebody f«. » ment of the moment, eT Wia remember who bad »14f<e- hfi i tls it was one particular toy j,s» reputation of being f*?** I '^ , 'a It. »» d thafc boy Indignantly. dtaW g r managed to prove an «* l&1 ' S^®' , first time now Iα bi«t©rytha t out about who origiuated that »■ exploaion.